We are happy to announce the introduction of the EASERA Gateway, a FireWire-based hardware solution developed jointly by PreSonus and SDA for use in professional measurements. For more details please see http://www.easera.com./news.html .

To answer the many questions we received as a response to our announcement we would like to add the following statements:

What is different comparing EASERA Gateway with PreSonus FireBox?
The EASERA Gateway has received several additions to firmware, driver and hardware to make the former recording interface FireBox work for professional measurements. These changes include achieving a stable latency for delay and TDS measurements, a physical loopback on the board to redirect the former SPDIF stream, a corrected set of filters and multiple bugfixes as well as numerous days of testing.

How does the EASERA Gateway relate to EASERA?
- EASERA remains an open measuring platform. All existing and new DirectSound, Wave and ASIO drivers will be supported also in the future.
- EASERA Gateway is a recommended hardware for all measurements, including Sweeps, MLS and Dual-Channel measurements
- EASERA Gateway is required to run TDS measurements with the EASERA TEF/TDS module
- EASERA Gateway can be used with any other audio software, similarly to the PreSonus FireBox, but without the SPDIF input/output, it is also fully supported by Apple computers
- EASERA Gateway and an updated version of EASERA are expected to be shipping in early December